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Community Committees

​​​​WHAT IS COMM? Community Committees

COMM is a generic title given to a health-focused community group empowered to coordinate and manage activities leading to improved overall community health, and strengthened civil society. In most cases, COMM programming is carried out through an existing community health group; often a Ministry of Health-led and supported ‘Village Health Committee”. Illustrative objectives of a COMM may include:

Provide a support system for CHWs and other community health volunteers

Assess and track the community health situation

Mobilize the community for improved health

Respond to barriers to health-related behavior change at community level

Assist with communication to and from the health system and the local administration

Advocate around issues leading to improved health systems

Given World Vision’s focus on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) priorities, COMM programming has been designed to assess, track and respond to the health situations of these specific target groups.